see more photographs in the "EXHIBITS"
page in my website and also over 100 how-to texts under "ARTICLES".

I enrolled at RIT as a student in 1961 and for over 40 years, the
reason for me being and remaining there was the School of
Photographic Arts and Sciences. At one time the School was part of
the College of Graphic Arts and Photography
but in 1987 or so CGAP was absorbed by a new college. The Photographic
Science
group decided to form their own center around that time and departed
the
organization. Now they are part of the College of Science. Then, in
February
1998, a move started to again re-organize the School. The School of
Photographic Arts and Sciences itself, a truly unique organization
(much like
Kodak, the Bauhaus or Life magazine)
spawned from science,
technology and the arts, was, in fact re-organized into smaller
departments. This is being reversed as of 2010 and I was a long time
proponent of this re-union. In May 1999 the School's motion picture,
video and animation
components formed a separate, new, school and SOFA is enjoying great
success.

Anyway, you can get an idea of the kinds of things that I used to
be engaged with in the past by taking a look at my latest summary of activities
or the one from
2010 or 2008
or 2005
or 2004
or 2003
or 2002
or 2001
or 2000 or 1999 or the one from
1998. However, in
late 2009 due to "stuff" it became apparent that my activities teaching and promoting
the school and helping others succeed were not doing much good and shortly thereafter
I decided to retire. On the other hand, you may be interested in one I
call mymy ill-fated
1975 report which was to be my last one in my previous life in
a now-closed college. It might give you a glimpse of the reason I left that college.

Or, since eventually I decided to only do the annual summaries instead of
keeping up my resume you may still be interested in
taking a look at a "historical document" that I really have not
taken the trouble to update properly since about the early to mid 1990s
and that is what might be called my
"resume" and here is a general, narrative-type biography
concentrating mostly on education, play and work. By the way, if you
want to read up on what my academic "career" entailed in the '60s here
is a link to an unofficial undergraduate and graduate transcript.

I've had a long-term association (founded the group in 1987)
with the Technical
Photography
Student Association, an organization representing all the
students within the host program I looked after for more than 20 years. To find out what I think
about the group here is a file that I
wrote about TPSA
some time ago. To this day I try to stay in touch with graduates of the
program. I no longer go through institutional email to do this but rather communicate with almost 300
grads of the Imaging and Photographic Technology (previously Technical Photography) program on a periodic basis
making them aware of possible employment opportunities and communicating as it should be done between
friends.

To see a sample of what I used to try (!!) to teach choose HS/TL for an article
describing in detail rather unique my High Speed/Time Lapse course.

A fun project was
the making of photographs during the January 2000 total
lunar eclipse. To read about this and see a couple of the resulting
photographs
just choose eclipse!

One of my principal areas of professional activity over the
years has been the
"field" of photoinstrumentation. Under this umbrella title are included
such
topics as high speed photography, schlieren
and shadowgraph
photography,
ballistic photography and stroboscopy, and many other applications of
photography where one needs to not only operate under hazardous
conditions but
is often required to produce photographs from which quantitative
information
will be extracted. In August of 2000 several of these photographs
appeared in a
book titled Out of Sight
and an extensive article appeared in the Italian science magazine Newton. In January 2001, American Photo OnCampus carried a
little spread as well. In May 2001 a couple of my stroboscopic photos
appeared in Veja magazine in
Brazil and in March/April 2002 my photograph appeared on the cover of Fotomundo in Argentina
and an article on digital stroboscopy inside. Then, in 2004, a
selection of my photographs appeared in Popular Mechanics in
Spanish and finally, in October 2005 my work with improvised
stroboscopic photography appeared in Popular Photography
magazine. Then again in June 2006 but this time the theme was Polarization
photography

On the left is an image of a supersonic bullet in free flight sporting
its
"shock wave" and visualized in a schlieren system. Select the thumbnail
image to see a larger version or click on bullet animation
to see this action in motion as recorded with a Beckman and Whitley
Dynafax
camera at 10,000 pictures per second. On the right is a 1/10
millisecond photograph of the
impact of a drop on a pool of water. Choose splash animation to
see it in
motion!

My long term interest has been the field of scanning or strip
photography.
This started in the mid-60's and extends to this day. Applications
include
panoramic, peripheral, photofinish, and other derivatives of an
"ingenious" approach to image-making. In the early '90s I made an uninterrupted photograph
of a 1.5 mile stretch of a local historic avenue. The photo below is
not of that avenue but was made as a test for making of the one of the
avenue! In the late 90's I made the second photo below with an
improvised digital "strip" camera. Select improvised digital
camera or choose infrared imaging with digital cameras to see a couple
of examples of what I am working on at the moment.

From time to time I get requests for my photographs for
reproduction in books, magazines, webpages, etc. Sometimes I am
offered a fee but most often not. I started to keep a record of these
requests and this link takes you to Photo Requests but I confess this needs updating!

Choose Free Traveling Exhibitionto
learn about a small collection of peripheral portraits I have on
worldwide tour. This low-cost, low-tech (high novelty!) exhibition has
now been shown in places like Little Angels Gallery in California, the
ITSON school and the University of Mexico at Obregon in Mexico, at
Clemson University, in Sao Paulo, Panama, Chicago, etc. Here it is at
the WallaceMemorialLibrary
at RIT in February, 2004. The latest exhibition of these photographs
was at the NIP 23 Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and
Technology held in Anchorage, Alaska in early Sept. 2007 and lastly at
the University of the Pacific in Lima, Peru from Nov. 27-Dec. 15, 2007.

While the little faces collection continues to be available I
also have another "traveling" set of peripheral portraits available to
anyone interested in displaying them. These are framed, behing
plexiglass and 8x14 and 16x20 inches in size. You can see them at: just
Portraits and at: Framed
Little Faces. Additionally I've framed a set of early or
vintage linear
strip and panoramic photographs from the 1970's and these are
also available for exhibition.

Now, in addition, I have compiled a small collection of my
high-speed and "technical" photographs and they are available for
exhibition (free to schools, museums and galleries). Contact me for
details and see the images in this TechWebGallery.

In September 2005 I decided to have some of my peripheral
photographs printed as postcards. I then realized that I'd have a lot
left over so decided to give them away for the asking to anyone
interested in them. Find out how HERE.

During the last few of years I have devoted much effort and
many hours to setting up and overseeing the smooth running of a
photo/imaging mail list known as the PhotoForum,
whose membership numbers about 650 addresses worldwide. I am also the
listowner of a Spanish language photography mail list called Fotored, the listowner of the Photohist-L photographic history
mail list and the coordinator of SPIE's High Speed
Photography forum. I also help
out The Photographic Historical Society
in Rochester as board member and
Internet "liaison"!.

I am very fortunate to have been associated, both as a student
and a colleague, with
some of the best photography instructors around. They are true "giants" and you
will find some of their names listed as authors of important books
connected with photography and
photographic education. On June 30, 2000 I went to the monthly lunch
meeting
of the "locals" and made some cool snapshots. In the early 1980s Dr. Les
Stroebel made some faculty portraits and at the time I was interested
in 3D photography.

In July 2007 I was given a document written by William Soule
Shoemaker about the history of the school from 1931 until 1981, the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of its establishment. It also
contained a brief biography of C.B. Neblette and William Brehm, as well
as a listing of past faculty members at the school. I am making it
available for your information here. Read SPAS history here!. Also, sometime in
2004 I decided to visit classes taught by several of my current
colleagues and make an informal visual record of them in "action".

I have a few small Exhibits of Photographs available. Here you will find
examples of
high speed, panoramic, peripheral and schlieren photography and other
specialized techniques. The Phoenix Process is highlighted in a couple
of
exhibits. You can read more about this novel process and many other
unusual
applications (such as high speed flash photography and "conical
peripheral photography" as shown in the small images at the top of this
page) by checking the Articles file
that also includes writings by friends and several present and past
teaching colleagues.

A few years ago I had an exhibition of my Peripheral
Portraits, some modified with the Phoenix Process, on exhibit at the Club
Fotografico de Mexico, located in Mexico City. While the real
exhibit has closed, choosing Exhibit
will allow you to see some of the work that was on display. More
recently I was invited to show past and current strip photography work
at the Rose Lehrman Gallery of Harrisburg Area Community College in
early 2004. This was the announcement
and this was the exhibition. More recently, in 2008, I
was invited to exhibit these and additional stroboscopic photographs at
the PhotoCenter in Schenectady. This is the announcement
and this is a view of the photographs on the walls!.
I'm looking for venues to exhibit. Contact me if interested.

On the "techy" side I put a small exhibit of my high speed and
schlieren photographs together as a result of being invited to show
them
at the
Discovery Center located in Bethlehem, PA. For an abbreviated,
online, version of the exhibit click here! and to read a story about
the exhibit that appeared in a local newspaper choose article.
In 2005 the collection was exhibited at the 50th Annual Conference of
the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) in San Diego,
CA. It looked like this. Then the collection was put
on display from September through end of December 2005 at the Danville
Science Center in Virginia. For 6 months during 2006 the
collection was on display at the Miami
Museum of Science. Following this exhibit I decided to make a
catalogue of the collection and this resulted in a small book that
includes more than just the images in the collection. It is available
through a print-on-demand outfit. Learn more about this and other
booklets available from an "on-demand" printer HERE!

More recently a dozen of these "technical and scientific"
visualization photographs have been on exhibit as part of the Hickory
Museum of Art (located in North Carolina) exhibition entitled Harold
Edgerton's Work and those he inspired (from April through
August 2008) and another dozen were on exhibit from April 22 - May 10,
2008 in a hallway display at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. The
collection, along with some examples of peripheral portraits was
exhibited at the May Gallery of Webster University in St. Louis
from Sept. 11 through October 2, 2009. The announcement looked like this
and part of the exhibition like
this. There was also the
article in the university newspaper. If you are interested in
hosting a similar exhibition (no charge) please contact me.

A couple of publishing opportunities came about in 2003 and
you can see examples of my contributions to a STRETCH
by Nick Meers, a panoramic photography book and to Adventures
with Pinhole and Home-made cameras by John Evans, a book true
to its title!. Then, in late 2003 a book on Images in Science
edited by Lennert Mueller and published in Sweden included a large
number of my high speed and schlieren photographs along with
explanatory text.

And, if you've read this far and want to know a bit more about
me, you may be interested in reading an interview with an online
magazine called Cyberholic and now that I think of it there was also
an earlier one at: Pomegranate

On a really lazy day in 1994 I founded the PPIC, a worldwide net of expert
investigators whose specialty is the debunking of
claims of psychic events, paranormal activities, ghosts, force fields,
unexplainable phenomena or imminent invasion by extraterrestrials based
on photographic evidence. On the other hand, I have also dealt with
more serious forensic photo authentication matters in cases such as the
President Kennedy
assassination and the OJ Simpson case as seen here.

For a bit of background maybe you want to check out my life history
and see my resume, such as it sort of is (I
stopped revising it in the mid 1990s). For a "pictorial review" you can
see me in about
1943, or 1946, or with my mother and brother in 1948, or by myself in 1949, or on my
horse, Blanquito, in
1952, in 1954 or by myself in
1956
or in Necochea with my buddies
or on the beach with my parents in 1957. Believe it or not,
smoking in 1962! Alone
in 1963 and 1975.
Or, see me in 3-D! (parallel view) in 1994, and to
bring you up to date these are from 1996 and from 1998 and 2002. Finally, see me with "Doc" Edgerton,
a favorite teacher (although I never had
him for a class) or, to catch a glimpse of one of my favorite
cities, check out a panoramic photograph I
made in Buenos Aires around 1978!. Make sure to scroll it to the right
since it is rather
long.

You may be interested in a short story of my trip to
Argentina during August in 1996. Or, a report about a July 1998 2
week visit to Tanzania's Serengeti
and Ngorongoro National Parks.

On the right is (to the best of
our information at this time) the Davidhazy "clan" crest. In case you
are wondering, their origins are Hungarian. Selecting the thumbnail
will take you to a small website where you can find those members of
this group who are most closely related to me. Here is a photograph of
my father, Capt. Andras
Davidhazy and my mother, Gabriella (Petracsek) and my
brother John and sister Minka
on her wedding. And this is a painting by the Komaromi Kacz of my
mother on her wedding in
about 1939. And this is an award-wining(!) photo of my sister Minka and poodle taken in 1960.

And on another personal note, here's a picture of two of
my "kids".
These asterisks (* and *) are pictures of my
older son from a few years ago and this is a link to Andrew's website.

While in Argentina my father owned a shipyard and made a small
fleet of 13 foot Quequen-class
sailboats he designed and I helped build. Here is a drawing of the little sloop. Later, in
Seattle, he designed (and seen here with him at the helm) what I think
is a classic, the 20 foot Heritage.
A few dozen of these were made. Here is my sister Minka with our father
in Budapest on his 90th
birthday in photo one
and photo two.
This is the text of an article about him
that appeared in a Hungarian magazine. "Capt. Andy" passed away in
Budapest in 2003 and this is a brief obituary
prepared by my brother John.

After arriving to the US in the mid-50's from Argentina I went
to school at Boston Latin School and just before coming to RIT in 1961
I was a counselor at Job's Pond Camp in
Vermont. At RIT I enrolled in the School of Photographic Arts and
Sciences and for a while was a studious Photographic Science student
and from Dr. Zakia learned all about DlogE Curves and Tone Reproduction. Here I am with a
few of my instructor colleagues in the late 1980's.